From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 30 20:52:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13556 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:52:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13533 for ; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:51:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA25433; Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:51:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 20:51:42 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Sean Lyndersay cc: dg@root.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Slow network performance on 3com 3c509 In-Reply-To: <000201bd5c5e$acc7d320$78a3f78c@lynders.student.harvard.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Sean Lyndersay wrote: > Okay, I've removed the SB16 completely, and rebuilt the kernel with no sound > support. I've tried the 3com card on both IRQ 7 (i haven't got a printer) > and IRQ 5, to no avail. I'm still getting really slow performance. > > I'm going to try another network card, and I'll report back. Hm. You might check the netstat -i output and look for excessive collisions (more than 10% of the output packets). If this is true then your network cable is getting too much interference. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message